This Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 40

This Week in Enterprise Tech

For the audio podcast of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news:

1. Slack & Wharton Weigh In On AI Adoption
2. Flexera Serves Up 2025 IT Priorities Report
3. IT Marketplace AppDirect to Acquire vCom
4. Cloudera to Acquire Octopai for Data Lineage & Discovery
5. ServiceNow Sets A Standard for GenAI Governance
6. Aera Bridges BI & Data Discovery with Workspaces
7. Does NVIDIA Deserve to Be the Biggest?
8. Criticism of Freshworks Layoffs: Justified Or Not?

Sources:
Slack & Wharton Weigh In On AI Adoption

Axios: https://www.axios.com/2024/11/12/ai-adoption-slows-slack-study

VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/enterprise-ai-adoption-surges-as-organizations-shift-from-experimentation-to-implementation/

Flexera Serves Up a 2025 IT Priorities Report

Flexera: https://info.flexera.com/ITV-REPORT-IT-Priorities

IT Marketplace AppDirect to Acquire vCom

BusinessWire: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241112277595/en/AppDirect-Announces-Upcoming-Acquisition-of-IT-Spend-Management-Leader-vCom-Solutions

Cloudera to Acquire Octopai for Data Lineage & Discovery

Cloudera: https://www.cloudera.com/about/news-and-blogs/press-releases/2024-11-14-cloudera-to-acquire-octopais-platform.html

ServiceNow Sets A Standard for GenAI Governance

BusinessWire: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241113489335/en/ServiceNow-Advances-Autonomous-Responsible-AI-on-the-Now-Platform-With-New-GenAI-and-Governance-Innovations

Aera Bridges BI & Data Discovery with Workspaces

Aera: https://www.aeratechnology.com/news/aera-technology-introduces-agentic-ai-workspaces-and-control-room-to-enable-the-full-spectrum-of-enterprise-decisions

Does NVIDIA Deserve to Be the Biggest?

TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/nvidia-just-became-the-worlds-largest-company-amid-ai-boom/

Criticism of Freshworks Layoffs: Justified Or Not?

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/saravanamv_i-saw-sridhar-vembus-post-about-freshworks-activity-7261963800612945921-k2EU

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights